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Post by ant-mac on Nov 1, 2018 2:51:14 GMT
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (2011) 5/5.
An American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America, created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. It is also the fifth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The screenplay is by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the film is produced by Kevin Feige and it’s directed by Joe Johnston. The musical soundtrack of the film is by Alan Silvestri.
Set predominantly during World War II, it tells the story of Steve Rogers, who is transformed into super-soldier Captain America and who must then stop the Red Skull, who intends to use an artefact called the Tesseract as an energy source to achieve world domination.
It stars Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Neal McDonough, Stanley Tucci, Toby Jones, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Derek Luke and Samuel L Jackson, with Stan Lee making a cameo appearance as a general. This is certainly one of the strongest entries to date in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series of films and should not be missed.
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Post by politicidal on Nov 1, 2018 15:31:18 GMT
9/10. In the capable hands of Joe Johnston, the film accomplishes the improbable task of making an old timey war propaganda icon seem human and relatable. It benefits from a fun retro vibe in the spirit of Indiana Jones and Johnston's earlier film The Rocketeer. Perhaps my second favorite solo installment.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Nov 4, 2018 0:20:46 GMT
I'm not really into the Marvel movies, but I liked this one, especially as includes 'The Howling Commandos', sans Nick Fury.
Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos was one of my favorite comic when I was a kid.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Nov 4, 2018 16:20:29 GMT
Like many ppl it seems, everyone has their own subjective MCU trail of key films. This one is right up there for me, I prefer it even to Winter Soldier. Arguably only Superman & Batman Begins delivered finer origin stories, including Iron Man.
CBMs can be aged out rather quickly because of their settings, which helps a lot for CAFA because WWII setting is already in the past. That keeps it timeless. Red Skull is only bested by Thanos for me as best MCU baddie. Loki becomes too likeable to be truly bad.
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 4, 2018 16:29:58 GMT
What politicidal and twothousandonemark wrote. This one’s great, and I would probably rank it above Iron Man if the action sequences were a bit better. (Action sequences and explosions tend to bore me. I know, I’m weird.) I love the callbacks to Johnston’s The Rocketeer, a longtime favorite; I love the interactions of the cast (Tommy Lee Jones! Stanley Tucci! That guy they got as Walt Disney/Iron Man’s dad, whoever he was!), the friendship between Cap and Bucky, the fact that they didn’t make Cap cynical or a big joke. The mood works perfectly. Oh, and Hayley Atwell’s cute. That too. And Evans is pitch-perfect as Cap. Unfortunately, they go more for the cynical mood later on, which kind of ruins the character for me. He’s supposed to be a boy scout, like Superman. twothousandonemark , I like Red Skull’s look, but he more or less melds with all the other Marvel baddies for me. As for Loki, they never seem to have written him consistently (I really think that the character’s not all that well-written, and what people like is just Hiddleston’s performance); my favorite Marvel villain so far has been Robert Redford’s spy chief, who seemed a convincing and interesting character. With that said, while Winter Solider may have better filmmaking (I keep praising that suspense sequence in the elevator—it’s just grand) and a better villain, I think I prefer The First Avenger too.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Nov 5, 2018 4:46:48 GMT
What politicidal and twothousandonemark wrote. This one’s great, and I would probably rank it above Iron Man if the action sequences were a bit better. (Action sequences and explosions tend to bore me. I know, I’m weird.) I love the callbacks to Johnston’s The Rocketeer, a longtime favorite; I love the interactions of the cast (Tommy Lee Jones! Stanley Tucci! That guy they got as Walt Disney/Iron Man’s dad, whoever he was!), the friendship between Cap and Bucky, the fact that they didn’t make Cap cynical or a big joke. The mood works perfectly. Oh, and Hayley Atwell’s cute. That too. And Evans is pitch-perfect as Cap. Unfortunately, they go more for the cynical mood later on, which kind of ruins the character for me. He’s supposed to be a boy scout, like Superman. twothousandonemark , I like Red Skull’s look, but he more or less melds with all the other Marvel baddies for me. As for Loki, they never seem to have written him consistently (I really think that the character’s not all that well-written, and what people like is just Hiddleston’s performance); my favorite Marvel villain so far has been Robert Redford’s spy chief, who seemed a convincing and interesting character. With that said, while Winter Solider may have better filmmaking (I keep praising that suspense sequence in the elevator—it’s just grand) and a better villain, I think I prefer The First Avenger too. Yeah that's fair about Loki - being written/handled by such a variety of ppl. Major props to Hiddleston for excelling with pretty much every hand he's been dealt.
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Post by ant-mac on Nov 12, 2018 13:40:06 GMT
What politicidal and twothousandonemark wrote. This one’s great, and I would probably rank it above Iron Man if the action sequences were a bit better. (Action sequences and explosions tend to bore me. I know, I’m weird.) I love the callbacks to Johnston’s The Rocketeer, a longtime favorite; I love the interactions of the cast (Tommy Lee Jones! Stanley Tucci! That guy they got as Walt Disney/Iron Man’s dad, whoever he was!), the friendship between Cap and Bucky, the fact that they didn’t make Cap cynical or a big joke. The mood works perfectly. Oh, and Hayley Atwell’s cute. That too. And Evans is pitch-perfect as Cap. Unfortunately, they go more for the cynical mood later on, which kind of ruins the character for me. He’s supposed to be a boy scout, like Superman. twothousandonemark , I like Red Skull’s look, but he more or less melds with all the other Marvel baddies for me. As for Loki, they never seem to have written him consistently (I really think that the character’s not all that well-written, and what people like is just Hiddleston’s performance); my favorite Marvel villain so far has been Robert Redford’s spy chief, who seemed a convincing and interesting character. With that said, while Winter Solider may have better filmmaking (I keep praising that suspense sequence in the elevator—it’s just grand) and a better villain, I think I prefer The First Avenger too. Yeah that's fair about Loki - being written/handled by such a variety of ppl. Major props to Hiddleston for excelling with pretty much every hand he's been dealt. It just goes to show how talented Tom Hiddleston is.
Any actor that can make a villainous character rival the heroic ones in popularity must be doing something right.
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